Hour away to Evacuation Centers you could see bumper to bumper traffic for miles as people searched for higher ground. Water began flowing into the emergency spillway yesterday for the first time in nearly 50 years. 100thousand cubic feet of water is now rushing through per second. That spillway is suffering from erosion but in a conference tonight at 6 officials with the dwr and Sheriffs Office said its not happening as quickly as once thought. Eric seedepartment of Water Resourcesnow heres a list of Evacuation Centers the red cross has set up at the Silver Dollar fairgrounds in Silver Dollar set up at the red cross has centers the list of now heres a resourceswater department of eric see once thought. Eric seedepartment of Water Resources now heres a list of Evacuation Centers the red cross has set up at the Silver Dollar fairgrounds in chico 2357 fair street. The glenn county fairgrounds at 221 e. Yolo streetand the elks lodge in paradise is also opening their rv park for free to ev
Tracking the Mass Evacuations from the danger area. Traffic is gridlocked. Low lying areas near the dam have been evacuated. That includes Oroville Gridley Yuba city and live oak. In total more than 130 thousand people ordered to leave. We have a crew in chico where an Evacuation Center has been set up. First kron4s Ella Sogomonian is tracking the attempt to avoid a disaster in oroville. Ella, what are those officials saying tonight . Thats what we are about to find out a press conference should be underway in butte county that was pushed from 9 to now 10 o clock for any updates. For now this is what we know so far the map here shows the oroville dam thats reached more than capacity pushing water into the auxilary spillway and now the emergency spillway thats never been used in the nearly 50 years of its existence. Fortunately at last check the amount of water rushing through dropped by half. Butte county sheriff calling this a dynamic situation so better safe than sorry an evacation w
Evaluate situation to make decisions to repopulate areas. Lake levels have fallen about onehalf a foot in the last two hours and stand atabout 901 feet. At the most recent update the objective was said to bring down the cubic feet of water flowing through the main spillway by 50 feet. Right now there is 100,000 cubic feet per second flowing. Theyll keep that going as long as possible to lessen the erosion happening at the emergency spillway. Public safety is said to be the number one concern. We spoke with doug carlson earlier of the department of water who said theres a bit of good news theres been a drop in elevation of the lake to 901 and 2 hundreths of feet above sea but that they are on pins and needles with multiple agencies help in any way. The Governors Office has been involved as well as local for any emergency that may be needed. Are likely to be used to drop and fill a at the a flash flood remains in tomorrow. Thousand and in yuba, sutter counties were forced out of their ho
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